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Web dev seems to be headed in three directions imo: 1) The old style, where the server owns the routing but can cede control over html to the frontend for disc
by powersurge360 5y ago
Web dev seems to be headed in three directions imo:
1) The old style, where the server owns the routing but can cede control over html to the frontend for discreet applications. Always cedes control of JS and CSS to the frontend.
2) A fully separated frontend and backend application that talks to one another over REST or GraphQL
3) A very javascript-light frontend that uses a technology like LiveWire, LiveView, or Hotwire to render on the server but push reactively to the frontend
I think any is fine and each have their merits. I imagine that #3 is the one that is most likely to supersede #1 as it's a direct evolution. But I would think that it's a bit gatekeeping to tell someone whose whole job is HTML templates, javascript, and CSS that they are No True Frontender.